The story of Aafia Siddiqui, and her zealous fans, exposes the intersection of Islamist violence, Pakistani politics, raging antisemitism and the relentless, hypocritical apologists for…
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The Capitol riot was a disgrace. But the more Democrats talk about the January 6th ‘insurrection,’ the ‘Trump coup’ or threats to democracy, the less…
Under the pall of another year of the pandemic, here are the opinions, from Pegasus to the Palestinians, Trump to Tehran, Bennett to Bio-Zionists, that…
Walder was a master storyteller who crushed his victims’ right to tell their own stories of his alleged sexual abuse. Now the Haredi world is…
The Western Wall is a holy site for all Jews everywhere. It should reflect the true diversity of Jewish practice around the world. But by…
Trump’s obscenities and antisemitic tropes don’t bother his Jewish fans. But a recent quote has stunned his pro-Israel base, evangelicals and Jews, to the core…
Ruth Wisse is a towering intellectual. But her polemics on U.S. Jews and how they should relate to Israel are truly outrageous, and reflect the…
If Donald Trump can be a Christian nationalist, so can Josh Mandel, the longtime nativist leading Ohio’s GOP Senate primaries Source: https://www.haaretz.com
By embracing Trumpist extremists like Mike Flynn and Marjorie Taylor-Greene pushing an exclusively Christian America, Josh Mandel isn’t forging a coalition with the far right,…
The relationship between the two largest and most successful Jewish communities in history, America and Israel, has long been dysfunctional. Netanyahu was just a particularly…
Does the ‘unfettered pursuit of truth’ solely motivate Bari Weiss’ new academic enterprise, when its faculty uniformly agrees that only the left threatens academic freedom…
Trump’s return would mean a constitutional crisis, a slide into authoritarianism and mob rule in the streets, endangering all of America’s minorities. So why do…
‘You’re heading for a cliff’: As the Bennett government insists on equating Israel with the settlements, even calling critics antisemitic, Biden must warn Israelis about…
We should stop pretending that a couple of neo-isolationist libertarians, outliers in the GOP, are just as bad as the antisemitism and vicious libels against…
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh says activists for trans rights are far more ‘repulsive’ than the unfairly maligned Inquisition. It’s a perfect example of how,…
The American Jewish establishment, which has wrongly and perniciously attacked Jimmy Carter as an intransigent foe of Israel and even a Jew-hater, needs to start…
Over half a century of occupation is finally catching up with Israel, and its support base in the U.S. is slipping – not least among…
Ben & Jerry’s is just the latest episode. Israel’s governments consistently try and pressgang Diaspora Jews into its war over the legitimacy of settlements, often…
A month ago, my union, PSC-CUNY, passed two resolutions: On China and on Palestine. They couldn’t have been more different – and illustrate how antisemitism…
‘A dangerous, Nazi-like act of economic terrorism that dehumanizes the Jewish people’: Why Ben & Jerry’s tokenistic decision to pull out of West Bank settlements…